View Full Version : The Complete History of VH1's Pop-Up Video


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01-12-2026, 05:48 PM
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In the early '90s (https://www.rewindplease.com/p/things-you-didnt-know-about-pop-up-video), VH1 (https://www.vox.com/2015/1/5/7482533/vh1-videos) was a network (https://youtu.be/-zbotffS3is) struggling in the shadow (https://youtu.be/j-bEM60Iw6k) of its far more successful sister channel MTV. Desperate for any programming (https://forum.dvdtalk.com/music-talk/402634-what-happened-vh1s-pop-up-video.html) they could call their own, a young network president named John Sykes took a chance on two thirty somethings named Tad Low and Woody Thompson who came to him with a vision (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/PopUpVideo). A show (https://lostmediawiki.com/Pop_Up_Video_(partially_found_VH1_music_series;_1996-2012)) unlike any other (https://trivialbob.tumblr.com/post/754899358157340672/who-remembers-vh1s-pop-up-video-the-first-run-of), that would entertain viewers (https://www.vox.com/2015/1/5/7482533/vh1-videos), annoy artists, and change the history of VH1 forever (https://www.openculture.com/?p=1121919). This is the story (https://people.com/tv/history-of-pop-up-video/)of Pop-Up Video (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop-Up_Video) and the men who created it, childhood friends who created something special, only to see their partnership permanently severed.